Competitions

Description
Adds a competition module to your forums. You can create as many competitions and allow members to participate in them.

Features

• Ability to force participants to fill certain custom profile fields
• Send Private Message to members who participate in the competitions
• Ability to allow more than one entry from a participant
• Input field for answers can be either a textbox, a textarea, radio buttons or a drop-down menu
• If the input type is radio buttons or a drop-down menu, the system can filter out wrong answers and generate a list of winners by picking random participants
• Schedule competitions by setting the starting date (user contributed)
• Very customizable

Installation

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file.
3. Edit the navbar template to add a link to competitions.php page. (see below)
4. Set necessary permissions for each usergroup to access and/or participate in competitions.
5. Edit the "hkc_nopermission_loggedin" and "hkc_winner_congratulate_message" phrase to customize to your taste.

Upgrade

1. Upload all necessary files to their respective directories.
2. Install the product XML file. Be sure to set "Allow Overwrite" to Yes.

Editing the navbar template

1. Open the navbar template

2. Find:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

3. Add after:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="competitions.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[hkc_competitions]</a></td>

4. Save template

Author Notes
This extension was developed specifically for my website but I am releasing the code since a few members here have have shown interest. I cannot state that it is totally free of bugs. I would appreciate your feedback in making this extension better.

Maybe in Future
At the moment, the question is only restricted to one per competition. I would like to have the ability to add more than one question per competition.

[Allan]

Great hack !!

File attach: French language

Click Install

[Hoffi]

Originally Posted by Don Corleone

well I have this competition on my board, where users comment on a certain picture and upon their comments they win points (ucash)
we have now a thread for this competition, but I would like to integrate it with the competitions hack... so i need to show all the entries for all the users

Maybe you should take a look at the InfernoQuiz.

[mrahul]

Originally Posted by husain

They are all phrases. All phrases used in this hack start with hkc_ so if you do a search for phrase names that contain this string, you will get them.

okie fine mate. found out thanks for the help. I am getting some problem with the cookies. the cookies are not getting saved. when ever i try to login it logs and comes back so not logged in any solution ? I get this problem only in Opera 7.54., it works good in firefox & opera 8.5

[Allan]

@Tidy_boy

What code do you use for it ?

[tidy_boy]

Originally Posted by Allan

@Tidy_boy

What code do you use for it ?

Hey there I used this bb code to do it

check ou thtis link http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...ht=align+image

[husain]

Originally Posted by Allan

@Tidy_boy

What code do you use for it ?

You can use HTML to style your question. For example:

<div style="float:right">
<img src="..." width="100" height="30" alt="" />
</div>
<p>Enter your competition details here.</p>
<p>Is this the competition question?</p>

[Allan]

thanks

[Holidazed]

Originally Posted by husain

No ideas, unfortunately. I haven't been able to reproduce this behaviour on any installations of the forums. Are you running a vanilla install of vB3.5 or is it upgraded? Any other extensions you have installed?

I have lots of other extensions and plugins installed. Are you saying that yours is in conflict with another one I am running? I suppose I can turn them all off and see if yours gives me the same problem.

[SpanishHarlem]

ok I am starting to get the hang of these hack's but still find some that give me a bit of trouble.

Can someone explain in steps exactly how this is done.

Edit the navbar template to add a link to competitions.php page.
Set necessary permissions for each usergroup to access and/or participate in competitions.
Edit the "hkc_nopermission_loggedin" and "hkc_winner_congratulate_message" phrase to customize to your taste

[Hoffi]

1) Open the Template navbar
search for:

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="calendar.php$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[calendar]</a></td>

And add after

<td class="vbmenu_control"><a href="competitions.php$session[sessionurl_q]">Competitions</a></td>

2)
Go in the ACP to the Usergroup permissions
Edir all Usergroups and set the permissions (nearly at the end of the page)
3)
Go in the ACP to search Phrases
type in on the two Phrase-Names
hit search and then Edit